Token Birthday Post

Wow, I didn't know so many people cared. *feels loved*

Thanks to everyone who sent/posted a birthday wish. I'd write everyone's name, but then I'd get a big head. Jean mentioned the new Star Wars movie coming out soon. I know that not everybody loves Star Wars, but it'd be a good chance to see each other again. It comes out on the 19th of May, which is a Thursday, and it'd be great to be able to see it as soon as it comes out, but I know that people would rather go to class (crazy people), so how about sometime over the weekend?

Update on the Mark thing. I'm getting mixed signals. Though he seems to want to see me, I think it's only as a friend. So I've given up on the whole Mark thing. *big sigh of relief that I won't have to wear a dress* Anyone eager to see goth-Jing?

Oh, and mum and dad gave me the iTalk thing for my iPod, so I've been playing around recording the stupid things that get said around the house. When I get around to listening to hours of audio, I'll post them up somewhere.

At my cousin's wedding, my uncle suggested that we start a family website, so that everyone can visit, upload photos/movies, post messages, and just see how everyone is going. I have a basic idea of what he has in mind, but since I was never into the whole building my own web page thing (I could never think of a good topic), I'm not really sure how to do a lot of the things that he mentioned. That means lots of reading for me! (If only I could be this enthusiastic about psychology.)

And that's all folks...

Oh, now that nothing is happening with Mark, and my chess teacher is sick, I have nobody to talk to at 3AM on MSN anymore. Where is everyone?

Looking for Mark, Revised

Some of you may have heard already, but I recently went looking for Mark. My chess teacher somehow convinced me that I should ask him out, but I had no way of contacting him. So we (my chess teacher and I) trawled the net for some sign of him, ie. an email address. After a long and unsuccessful search through the uni email, Nick suggested that I try looking at the list of members of certain clubs. I think that if Nick were here, I would have hugged him. Thankfully, he wasn't, so there was no hugging.

I came across this post where he started talking about his girlfriend. I was in shock, as he'd never mentioned anyone before, though there was someone that he seemed pretty close to. Oddly, her name was Anna.

So I didn't bother reading the rest of it and just left it at that. Nick was very good at cheering me up, he should be my new oniichan (my old niichan wants to be called niisan now).

After a while though, I realised that even if nothing was going to happen between us, he'd still make a great friend. So I went back and got his email address, started talking to him, and found out that that whole thing with Anna was just a joke. *happy!*

It was a bit awkward to begin with, as he didn't seem to remember me, T.T, but after a while, it got much easier and we just kept talking. You know how time seems to fly when you're having fun? Well, the next thing I knew, Dad was awake and trying to get me to go to sleep, and I noticed that it was nearly 5AM! And I wasn't even playing WoW.

Jing, before you get out the dress that you want me to wear, I'd like to point out that nothing has happened, so I'm not in love. Though that might change ^_^

Sad :(

I broke one of my resolutions! *cries*

At notice printing you have 3 items overdue.

I borrowed some manga for my sister, and now I have 3 overdue books.

Also, in the past week, Graham has messaged me twice to tell me that Daniel has died again.

And I seem to have lost the ability to make a paragraph that's longer than one line.

And sadness that I haven't seen Mark in a long time.

Oh, and I have to go to a wedding on the weekend.

I also found out some very surprising news. Good surprising, not bad surprising.

I should really write something more cohesive.

But between writing my lab report and playing WoW, I've had almost no sleep. Surprisingly, I don't think I've touched my PS2 in ages. Wow, incredible, I didn't even realise.

Oh, weird thing. I saw my digital systems lecturer on Satuday. Was so weird seeing him outside of a classroom, becaus he's normally dressed formally. Except one time, it was really hot, and he was wearing shorts. It just felt so awkard. His family was also there, and I didn't really know what to say. They were all looking at me oddly, so I told him that I had to catch the bus (which was true, I had a feeling that Nibo was going to kill me :/), and I left.

This week has just been too weird, I can't wait for the holidays to start!

Do I Know You?

I've been thinking about that Six Degrees of Separation thing, and I've noticed that I have a lot of 'circular friendships'- friends that are friends of friends sort of thing. I realised that the only new person that I met (someone that wasn't already friends with one of my other friends) was Sam, my ex-gay best friend. Considering how many new friends I made last year, that's really strange. So I've decided to make a new friend who is not already friends with a current friend. This is actually quite hard, since I'm inherently anti-social, but I'm going to try anyway.

My first attemt was on Tuesday. I decided to try the person sitting next to my in my philosophy tute. His name is David Edquist and he's staying at Ormond. For some reason, something clicked in my head, and I realised that the name sounded familiar. It turns out that he's also a member of II and we've actually met before! So that was a bust since he's friends with Tom, so he doesn't count as a new friend.

My next attempt was today, on my way home. I saw this guy walking by himself and I looked at him and said, "Hey! Do I know you?" which I figured was a good way to get the attention of a stranger. He stopped and looked confused. Against all of the messages in my body telling me to run, run like the wind on a windy day, I asked him what course he was doing. He's a science student. So to go with the whole recognising him, I asked if he did maths. I found out that he's a botany student. At that point, I got the feeling that he was going to open up and tell me his life story. At that point, the only thing going through my head was, "I want to go home." So we exchanged names, I said I might see him sometime, and I left. A quick search on the Email directory for Tims doing botany returned 20 reults. For some reason, I get the feeling that I'm never seeing him again.

But two half failures hasn't deterred me. I'm still going to try and find a friend that isn't already connected to my current friends. I just don't think talking to random people walking around is going to help. I'd try my psychology lecture, but I'm too busy staying awake to make conversation.

Philosophy is awesome! There are only about 80 of us (which is supposedly quite a lot for this subject, seems to be really unpopular). Out of that, maybe two thirds show up to lectures. Greg Restall, the lecturer is really funny. He has this odd thing about the moon being made of green cheese, which seems to have passed on to the tutors as well. Because of the style of the subject, we have arguments all the time, and I'm loving it! Not arguments to the scale of 'Is there a God?' or 'Why are we here?', but just about whether statements like '2 + the Pacific Ocean = Beethoven' and 'The present King of France is bald' (France doesn't currently have a king) are propositions or not. The other great thing about it is that it's very simliar to digital systems which I just passed (Yay me!), so it wasn't hard to get my head around thinking a certain way.

Anyway, I should be researching Ainu (indiginous Japanese people) at the moment, so I should stop wasting time. Hope everyone had a good first week!